Why does bash sometimes think my $HOME isn't the correct directory?
- by Adam Yanalunas
Like the title says it seems that bash sometimes misidentifies my $HOME. This cropped up after a seemingly unique series of events that I will now replay in broad strokes.
Running OS X 10.6 with normal, local account
Work binds my account to Active Directory
Much time passes with no issues
Set up rvm to manage Ruby installs (this becomes important later)
Upgraded to OS X 10.7 a few days ago
After successful install, attempted to log in, was presented with "Must reset password" dialog that never allowed a password to be reset. Would simply shake the box after new password was entered.
Much googling was done.
Much more googling was done.
Swearing was had.
Logged in as root, created new account, set as admin, deleted /Users/[new account], renamed /Users/[old account] to /Users/[new account]
Logged out of root, logged into new account with no issues
After OS X asking for a my account password a few times to update Keychain and other system-level stuff it was back to business as usual.
Opened Terminal, cd to project folder, tried "rails server" and was presented with:
/usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/dependency.rb:247:in to_specs': Could not find rails (>= 0) amongst [] (Gem::LoadError)
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems/dependency.rb:256:into_spec'
from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/rubygems.rb:1210:in gem'
from /usr/local/bin/rails:18:in'
Ran through a few exercises, decided to rm -rf ~/.rvm and reinstall. Running a --trace on the rvm installer shows it dies on this line:
mkdir: /Users/[old account]: Permission denied
Scrolling back through the --trace log I see many more mentions of /Users/[old account]. When inspect the install script the offending line is looking at "${HOME}/.rvm" as it tries to run the mkdir. To my confusion I also see mentions of /Users/[new account] in the log.
I've tried exporting a new HOME in my .bash_profile to no luck.
Can anyone guess why /Users/[old account] would still be kicking around?
